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JFK Library honors officials who challenged voting systems
- Two election officials will be honored at the John F. Kennedy Library for their efforts to maintain the integrity of the vote in their respective states.California Secretary of State Debra Bowen and Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner will each be presented a Profile in Courage Award Monday. The annual awards are named for a 1957 Pulitzer Prize-winning book authored by John F. Kennedy. Proposed ballot question would abolish state income tax
- Anti-tax activists have begun a second petition drive aimed at putting a question on the November state ballot which, if approved, would abolish the state income tax in Massachusetts.Supporters of the initiative need to collect just over 11,000 signatures to put the measure on the ballot. A similar question appeared on the 2002 state ballot and was defeated, but did get the backing of almost 45 percent of voters. Brothers, elderly woman hurt in Springfield shootings
- Springfield police are investigating weekend shootings that injured three people - including a 73-year-old woman.Police said the woman was wounded in the leg by a stray bullet shortly after midnight Sunday outside a restaurant on Worthington street. Witnesses told police the bullet came from a passing car. Two die in central Mass. crash
- State police say a male driver and a female passenger were killed when the car they were in went out of control and crashed on Rt. 190 in West Boylston.The accident happened at about 9:40 p.m. Sunday on the northbound side of the highway near Exit 5. Western Massachusetts' Russian paper ceases publication
- The only Russian language newspaper published in western Massachusetts has ceased operations after putting out 48 issues in four years.Publisher and editor-in-chief Pari Hoxha says the newspaper was profitable, but he had to cease publications with the April issue because he does not speak Russian. Supporters of ex-UMass student want charges reviewed
- Faculty and students at the University of Massachusetts want prosecutors to drop charges against a former student accused of stabbing of two men he says broke his dorm room window and taunted him with racial insults.The group plan to unveil a petition Monday asking the district attorney to review what they describe as excessive charges against Jason Vassell, who is black. Mass. Daily
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- A landmark bill designed to better manage everything from wind farms to whale watching in the coastal waters off Massachusetts is making its way through the Statehouse and could emerge from a key legislative committee as soon as this week.Environmental activists are calling the legislation, separate versions of which have already been approved by the House and Senate, a first-in-the-nation attempt by a state to create a comprehensive management plan for its ocean waters. Next generation of business software could get more fun
- Once upon a time, people bonded with their co-workers on office softball teams and traded gossip at the watercooler.OK, so those days aren't gone yet. But as big companies parcel Information Age work to people in widely dispersed locations, it's getting harder for colleagues to develop the camaraderie that comes from being in the same place. Beyond making work less fun, feeling disconnected from comrades might be a drag on productivity. Mass. prison chief to testify in inmate's sex-change lawsuit
- A federal judge who will decide whether a convicted murderer can have a sex-change operation wants to hear from the head of the state's prison system.Department of Correction Commissioner Harold Clarke is slated to testify Monday in federal court in the case of Michelle Kosilek, who claims not allowing the surgery amounts to cruel and unusual punishment. |
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